Hermann Groener

Hermann Groener (4 February 1856-28 April 1934) was a German Reichswehr general during World War I and the German Revolution.

Biography
Hermann Groener was born in Liegnitz, Silesia, German Empire (now Legnica, Poland) on 4 February 1856. Groener enlisted in the Imperial German Army in 1873, and he rose in the ranks after graduating from and teaching at several military academies. By the start of World War I, Groener had reached the rank of General, and he commanded German forces on the Western Front of the war. During the German Revolution following the war, Groener was tasked with suppressing communist rebellions in Bavaria, leading an 18,000-strong army. On 10 October 1919, he eliminated 3,000 Red Guards at Bayreuth. Groener helped in crushing several communist uprisings before retiring following the revolution's end, and he died in 1934.